Lag on FIFA online? It's smooth. The only lag you get is deliberate. You can see the connection quality on the graph before you start, back out if it's not full green bars.

Was very happy to see Skyrim come through the letterbox today, wasn't expecting it for a few days. Just finished my first proper sit down with it, and it's quite simply amazing. The environmental graphics are some of the best I've ever seen and so far the gameplays been very good. Not too far in yet but time goes so quickly when your playing. Just looked at the clock and saw it was one so I though I'd best stop.

As far as I know, you don't get that bar with FUT online games?

I tend not to pay too much attention so I will have to check, but so far, every game I've played has been laggy. It is probably my internet/router or whatever, but I don't enjoy online play as it hasn't been anywhere near as responsive for me as I'd hoped.

I have games on Fifa online that usually aren't lagging, but as soon as I play online on Ultimate Team it is always lagging a lot. That combined with people who skip through their kits just to show which kits they are using when I couldn't care less, they ruin UT online really.

A lot of people have started exploiting lag because they've closed the loops on the other exploits like selecting the keeper instead of defending. They just start the game and start a torrent download or video stream to slow the connection down, with the hope you quit. I really don't see why they do it, if you are cheating, what sense of achievement do you get out of it?

I had a pretty hefty session on Skyrim last night - the game world seems absolutely huge and I've already pretty much abandoned the main quest stories to go exploring and unlock loads of side quests. Managed to kill three dragons so far - they seem easier to kill than some of the other enemies like giants. Also came across an ice witch type person that killed me pretty quickly.

Gonna get some work done this afternoon and carry on after watching England v NZ later on!

Also managed to win a copy of the new Assassin's Creed game in a Twitter competition

Can you perform L2 type of goals from just having the ball at your feet?

Yeah, they'll try a power shot, look-away shot or backheel shot

I never knew it done a power shot. I knew you could do look aways, backheels and 'spinheels' as I call them.

At least I think it does. Maybe only with players of a certain attribute?

Almost 6 hours in to Skyrim, and it's not disappointed me at all. Met my first dragon... it wasted me

Do they make noises like in the adverts?

Hmmm don't know about the advert...

Just on Fifa now and tried these 'L2' shots in the arena with Neymar and can't seem to get anything apart from standard shots?

My copy of Skyward Sword was just despatched icon_smile.gif

Plenty of tutorials on youtube. Just type 'L2 skill shots' in. I think they are relational to the ball position. I've done most of them, but don't use them in games as they are completely pointless and more often than not don't work, much like the more elaborate dribbling skills.

MW3...abysmal. Campaign 6 hours (at a slow pace) with a terrible story. Multiplayer baaaad. Really lazy effort, just cashing in on the franchise, which we knew already.

I bought it but took it back as I realised that I hated COD since MW2. I don't know how they got it so right with COD4 and even WaW, yet so wrong with the others. What the producers have done wrong, and it is wrong, is they've added 'more' in terms of game play. All good games, especially multiplayer games, should stick to a core game play, they should never really anything too much or too dramatic, and instead should look to develop game modes.

When I played Blops and there was all those kill streaks and the 'dolphin dive', I thought 'WTF are these people thinking about?'. Same with MW2 when they added the kill streaks that you controlled yourself; it resulted in people getting 40 kills a game, with 30 of those from kill streaks. Ever since then, I've gradually hated it more and more.

COD4 was a masterpiece, a great multiplayer experience that, compared to the more recent installments, was limited in how much you could do online, yet it had years of depth and playback in it. Since then, instead of sticking to the core game play and developing it, i.e. adding things like better online hosting, better matching systems and better weapons/customisation to improve the overall experience, they just added more things that actually proved to completely change the online experience.

For me, the game will never return to its early heights, it has arguably the biggest fan base in gaming and will continue to exploit that, with things like COD Elite proving how much more they can rake from the customers.

Is that 6 hours playing it on Veteran or just the normal difficulty? I'll probably get it eventually, but not at full price. I've got next to no interest in playing games online so it really annoys me when single player/campaign modes in games take a back seat.

Battlefield 3, on the other hand, is all kinds of multiplayer awesomeness!

Is there a way to change the referee's kit colour on Fifa? Makes no sense playing a side all in black/navy when the ref wears black too, can be confusing.

Normal but still, the missions are really short and the story is cheesey on an American action movie level.

The fact killstreaks continue after death means there are far too many UAV's to play any other way than running around like a madman

Dolphin Dive? Whazzat?

Whilst I'm not a big fan of the big weaponary killstreaks (although I have found it funny being on a losing team, getting a random weapon crate with Attack Dogs or Gunship in it and ending up winning the match with it), the contracts, COD points and Wager matches were strokes of genius. Especially Gun Games.

The going prone whilst sprinting, I imagine

It's only support rewards that don't reset. And the simple way to counter the constant UAV is to just use the assassin perk. Which you should always be using anyway.
Get a silencer equipped, with Assassin Pro and Dead Silence, and you can happily run around the map completely undetectable on the radar. Happy days.

I actually quite enjoy playing each new iteration of cod, for a short while at least. The best mode by a mile is Team Tactical. Get three mates to play with you and it can be a good laugh - the matches are a much slower pace and the constant rotation of game types keeps it interesting.

And how can anyone not like Black Ops? Some genuinely original ideas brought to the franchise, and it had tomahawks. Instant win, especially when you can nail someone right in the face with one across the entire stretch of a map like I managed to do! It was glorious!